ACT College and Career Readiness Standards (Mathematics) — national
ACT Integrating Essential Skills. Practice it free.
This category focuses on the mathematical skills students need to use their knowledge in authentic, real-world contexts; questions primarily focus on concepts and skills students will likely encounter in everyday life. This All grades reporting domain maps to 46 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.
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Integrating Essential Skills skills
Recognize and appropriately use the mathematical skills and concepts necessary to solve real-world problems.
Read and understand the words, numbers, symbols, diagrams, tables, and graphs in mathematical texts.
Reason quantitatively.
Identify relationships among quantities.
Organize and analyze data presented in various forms.
Solve real-world problems involving measurement, rates, ratios, percentages, and proportions.
Translate a situation described in words into a mathematical expression, equation, or inequality.
Apply mathematical models to solve problems.
Use properties of numbers and operations.
Use simple algebraic manipulations to solve problems.
ACT’s math test is built around the ACT Mathematics reporting categories and ACT College and Career Readiness Standards rather than a state-specific framework. The official description says these standards are empirically derived and are the focus of ACT assessments, with modeling counted across categories.
Preparing for Higher Math 57%–60% total; Number and Quantity 7%–10%; Algebra 12%–15%; Functions 12%–15%; Geometry 12%–15%; Statistics and Probability 8%–12%; Integrating Essential Skills 40%–43%; Modeling is reported throughout and overlaps other categories.
ACT Description of Math Test
ACT College and Career Readiness Standards
ACT College and Career Readiness Standards Mathematics PDF
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Topics mapped to this domain
Interpreting at least and at most
Solving one- and two-step linear equations
Integer operations
Percent problems
Percent proportion word problems
Ratio, rate, and proportion word problems
Ratios, rates, and proportions
Simple interest
Table problems with percents and ratios (ACT)
Common factor group size (ACT)
Decimal operations
Evaluating powers
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In a school zone, a car must travel at a speed of at most miles per hour. A car is traveling at miles per hour. What is the minimum decrease needed in the car's speed, in miles per hour, so that it meets the speed limit?
The speed must be at most miles per hour. The minimum decrease is
What value of satisfies ?
Add to both sides: . Divide both sides by : .
What is ?
Result: .
is what percent of ?
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A restaurant bill is . What is a tip, in dollars?
Tip dollars.
A passenger train traveled miles in hours at a constant speed. What was the train's speed, in miles per hour?
Speed = distance time: miles per hour.
Given and , find .
. With , , so and .
Find the simple interest on at per year for year.
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